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Ken Pepiton Jul 23
A bemusement used, a taken way...

Usually reality is realized
after all seemed
done, ready as we appear
in the bubble
of all that has ever been known, or told
in medium made
to hold collective gnosis,

recognosis' last realization
known as common sense
we, who read already know,

but so far never use altogether.

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See time, imagine seeing time,
prepare perception per
happening, per
turning, re
turning to go…

go on,
perform the day,
become the knower
asking for interpreting
translation retaining prettiness.

Can you, with your tools, presume
every reader ever sipping this piece
or part of the wholesome inspiration,
each reader already
wills the fist,
fingers wound, thumb bound
to knock
on the portal asking egress,
apparent,
from this far, retrogress,
inward vision,
to the core, here,
whither heart and lungs work
the works within us, pumps
for the fluids we intake,
and rework into blood
and phlegm, snot gobs and spittle,
to lubricate descent into churning acid,

that burns, dissolves, breaks down, food,
for thought used for reason, to answer
why, or how, when, where, who,
enough, for any character, I or
you, the other, there, seeing

time made from theory
of entheos enthusiasms thought
through though roughly, being as

distance traveled in experience, known

between us, emptyness, in truth,
nothing to see, no evident connection,
save the absolute reality these letters let

be, the meaning, the unspoken,
or, the finite bespoken spell,
ordering attention, pointed

precept perception, taken in,
via letters letting translators
make all who read be mankind,

wombed or un, we always insist,
persistence in life is what we live
to prove worth the wait, we run,

in the manner of machines, spring
driven, wound up to run down, sit
still
waiting for impetus to push us, ag
us into aggressive response, obeying
fusing forces restricting chemistry
laws of valence and ionic charge
informing recognizable
smell and taste, certain flavors used

to make one think, any thought thing,
reifiable, if one trys to think what if we

both sides
of these ephemeral lettings,

as one pulls, the other pushes, we run,
like a mechanical mind, winding next
around now, making ready, peeling away

the protective rind around the feeding
mind's first fruit from sleep and coffee,
catalysts few think of as tools, prepeeling,
pre
parings falling prophesy a letter Y, why
because, of course, you shall be loved.

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Let each stitch contribute,
leave each line remember next.

Each stitch taken to mend, saves…

Thread, twine, or more twists,
tieing strands set aside for good,
useful
lengths as linear tying tools holding

this or that, to other parts, already, in
the frame, weft strung taut, strummed,

harpish notes, each string tuned
to perfect tension,
within our loom's frame, adjusted
to the background noise,
participating notes unnoticed
in the finished goods sent to market.

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eh? Commercial quality, y'say?
it is naught, it is naught,
but the buyer lies.

By now, the asking price is paid.

What market, who buys my confusing redoing
weaving the wishes of me as a boy, into final form,

old man, looker into the abyss, and listening, humm

of life in the flesh,
in the reality you seem
to become future real in,
stepping away from the well trodden road to riches,

landing in one of those engineered ditches, sudden,
instant after falling, laughing, glad there was no rain,
since, were that superfluity
relief never forseen as
needful, even essential,
to prevent a total washout
of roads
from ever before
to ever after, where
when as ever truth does tell
it inevitably must rain too much.


------------------------- Epilog
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Let me taste your ware."
Says the pieman
to Simple Simon,

"Show me first your penny,"

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Indeed, I have not any."


Well, then eat a poem,
for truth once paid attention,
works like a penny, for simple men
wishing but something to chew.

Pi, and spinning and wishing all work
spells we wish we knew, roundly.
E to the nth degree evolves to rest

Entheos inspired, empathy aspiring…

letting be what must amused remain enthused.
Evident bemusement, in the space of time.
Thank you, first reader. Yet to be, you are the first to find lines lost in the flood of letters forming nothing until you happened to read them. True or false, if that were the question attempting its own answer.
Zywa Aug 2023
The minister has

a large first-aid kit with him --


He knows the devil.
Novel "Oranges are not the only fruit" (1985, Jeanette Winterson)

Collection "No wonder"
My Dear Poet May 2021
There is a ribbon
bound around
my heart
with a bow, so
you know
holding every part

you
thought it was
a gift I brought
to unwrap
and you did
without thought
and that was
that

and that there
was where
it all fell apart
at the seam with ease
at every cut
and part

so please
if you’re so keen
to untie a heart
warn of your touch
and how
clutching ribbon
could hurt
so much

If only
I’d been told
from the start
I’d have used
my mind
to take hold
my heart
Zafirah Apr 2021
Who am I to question,
When hardships befall over me?
Let it be a vast circle of bulky mountains,
Ensnaring me from all sides.
If I fall into a threatening void,
A void that gnaws at my soul,
And is ravenous for my worn-out soul,
That helps me encounter more turbulences.

But who am I to question my tolerance of enduring a void that ravens for troubles for me?
When my Master, the Beloved of the Almighty,
Stated that Muslims are prepared to confront
Whatever situation they may face with their faith.

With my faith,
I can pull myself out of the void,
Shove off bulky mountains,
because
they ain't heavier than my
Iman.
‘Whatever difficulty reaches a Muslim, be it an illness, worry, sadness, pain,
distress, or even a ***** of a thorn, Allah Almighty makes it an
expiation for his sins’. (Sahih-ul-Bukhari, vol. 4, p. 3, Hadees 5641)
Bhill Jan 2020
Every day is new and fresh
Every day is different
How is your Mindset
Every day will bring unique possibilities
Every day will become Yesterday
How is your Mindset
Are you willing to sacrifice one day
Are you ready for The Day
Are you prepared
Ponder what today will bring

Brian Hill - 2020 # 4
Be ready
Get your mindset on....
Makenzie Marie Oct 2019
I’m the queen of overthinking so you have to know that I’m overthinking things each night that goes by, afraid that you must have, or will, changed your mind.
Nina Sep 2019
I knew
That i would fall for him
When i first saw him
And at that moment
I knew
I would get hurt
But i didn't mind the pain
I didn't  mind
Killing myself
For him
He was like a poison to me
Something so dangerous
Yet I'd risk my life for
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